Hotstar, The Most Entertaining App of 2017 by Google Play

Hotstar is India’s largest streaming platform with more than 1 Lakh hours of movies and drama in 9 different languages and covers major sports events. Hotstar was launched in early 2015, since then it has been India most downloaded application and has an over 300 million followers. The highly evolved video streaming app delivers quality experience across multiple platforms. The Hotstar Premium showcases best line up of movies, TV shows and sports from around the world. At a monthly subscription fee of Rs. 199 it delivers a huge library of entertainment.

The Software has been named as the Most Entertaining Apps of 2017 by Google Play the largest global app store for Android devices. Hotstar was also spotted on the top list on iTunes as Apple TV’s app of the year for India 2016.

Google Play’s Best of 2017 is the annual round-up of the best performing consumer applications across categories such as entertainment, productivity, gaming, fitness among others. Being the largest app ecosystem in the world, with over 3 million available apps, each category is hotly contested with products from the world’s best technology developers.

Since its launch, Hotstar, the first Indian app to cross 100 million downloads on the Google Play Store, has racked up multiple industry accolades such as Apple TV’s App of the Year and has been featured on every list of India’s most downloaded apps.

Impressively balancing the twin challenges of supporting traffic from millions of daily users, while still pushing the platform towards a world-class user experience, Hotstar has placed special emphasis on creating a personalized viewing experience, so as to help users smartly navigate through hundreds of thousands of hours of content.

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To underscore its leadership in live sports, Hotstar has also made big investments towards providing users with a sports experience that not only provides analysis but also allows users to track and re-live the highs of the match in a communal experience with millions of other users. Innovations in content, coupled with Hotstar’s consistent efforts to keep the app data-light, have ensured that Hotstar is often a new mobile data user’s first app.

Google Play’s Best of 2017 was announced on 1st December and the detailed list of winners can be viewed HERE

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